TIDE-HSV said:

Argh! He's back on that billions pouring in from China from tariffs! Is just lying or does he just not understand that the money's coming from Americans?

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Trump signs largest wilderness protection bill in a decade

Capping a rare bipartisan effort in Congress, President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed into law the largest wilderness preservation bill in a decade, a measure that includes new protections for California’s Mojave Desert.


The new law, which passed the U.S. Senate last month by a vote of 92-8, designates 1.3 million acres of federal land in California, Oregon, Utah and New Mexico as wilderness, the highest level of protection, in which logging, oil drilling, mining and road-building are banned.

Among its provisions, the measure establishes 375,000 acres of new wilderness — an area nearly 13 times the size of San Francisco — in the Mojave Desert, most of it on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The legislation also enlarges Death Valley National Park by 35,929 acres and Joshua Tree National Park by 4,518 acres.

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The bill signed Thursday is a collection of more than 100 pieces of legislation written by a broad mix of Democrats and Republicans. It sets aside 621 miles of rivers for new protections, establishes new national monuments at Civil War sites in Kentucky and in Mississippi to honor civil rights leaders Medgar and Myrlie Evers, and provides Native Alaskan Vietnam veterans the ability to homestead federal land in Alaska. It also extends for seven years the “Every Kid in a Park” program, started in the Obama administration, which gives fourth-grade students and their families free admission to all national parks.


The provision that drew the most support from GOP leaders, however, ensuring passage, was a measure to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund. That law, passed in 1964, is America’s largest source of funding to not only expand national parks and wildlife refuges, but to provide grants to states and cities to create new local parks, baseball fields, community swimming pools, boat marinas and other outdoor amenities. In Trump’s budget plan Monday, he proposed cutting spending from the fund by 95 percent, a move that Congress is expected to reverse.

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Bazza said:

Trump signs largest wilderness protection bill in a decade

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TIDE-HSV said:

Argh! He's back on that billions pouring in from China from tariffs! Is just lying or does he just not understand that the money's coming from Americans?

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MattinBama said:

Trump suggests that it could get 'very bad' if military, police, biker supporters play 'tough'

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TIDE-HSV said:

Surely he's read "Mein Kampf"...

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Bamaro said:

I'd be shocked if he has.

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MattinBama said:

Trump suggests that it could get 'very bad' if military, police, biker supporters play 'tough'

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twofbyc said:

Wasn’t it his first wife that said he kept a copy of it on his nightstand? Or was it Marla?

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Bamaro said:

But did he actually read it? I'm sure he has a bible also but I'm sure he has never read that either.

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twofbyc said:

I’d bet money he doesn’t own a bible.

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Jon said:

I'd take that bet. There is no way Mike Pence and about 10K others haven't gifted him one.

Hell, I own a bible. Brother in law gave it to us as a wedding present, he could have put $1000 between the pages in cash and I'd never know it but it is on my bookshelf somewhere

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